Mens Tennis Defeats Whitman in NCAA 2nd Round

May 03, 2008

CMS Men's Tennis advanced to the third round of the NCAA Team
Championship with a 5-1 win over Whitman College at CMS' Marks and
Smith Courts on Saturday. The Stags were paced by senior captain
Ben Hough (Spokane, WA [pictured right]), who had
wins at #2 doubles and #6 singles.

CMS got out to a 2-0 lead in the doubles when #3 pair
Russell Brockett (Fr. - Austin, TX) and
Mike Starr (So. - San Ramon, CA) earned a 8-4 win,
and #2 doubles team Hough and Eric MacColl (So. -
Greenbrae, CA) got a one-break 8-6 win. After losing at #1 doubles,
the Stags singles players won five of six first sets to put CMS in
a position to clinch. Junior Lawrence Wang
(Orange, CA) was the first to win at #1 singles. Wang's straight
set win was closely followed by similar triumphs from Hough at #6
and junior Drew Sabater (Claremont, CA) at #4, to
give the Stags the 5-1 victory.

The Stags will face #1 ranked UC Santa Cruz on Sunday at 12 Noon
for the right to go to the NCAA final eight in Lewiston, Maine, May
13-15. The match-up between the nation's top two teams, marks the
second consecutive year that the teams have faced each as other as
#1 and #2 in the NCAA regional final. In their regular season dual
match three weeks ago at CMS, the Stags pulled off a 5-4 win after
trailing 4-0.

CMS has now won ten straight matches and has been perfect in
April and May. With the win over Whitman on Saturday, the Stags are
now 24-7 on the season.